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CVE-2022-21695

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-21695 affects OnionShare, an open-source tool for secure file sharing and communication over Tor. The vulnerability allows authenticated users (or unauthenticated in public mode) to send messages in chat without appearing in the participant list, potentially enabling covert communication. With a CVSS score of 5.3 (Medium), this issue has a low attack complexity and requires no user interaction, but its impact is limited to low integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:onionshare:onionshare:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.85%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
54.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0085 is in the 34th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: onionshare-cliFixed in: 2.5

Vendor Advisories (1)

pipGHSA-99p8-9p2c-49j4medium

Improper Access Control in Onionshare

Jan 21, 2022

References

github.com / onionshare/onionshare/releases/tag/v2.5
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
github.com / onionshare/onionshare/security/advisories/GHSA-99p8-9p2c-49j4
Third Party Advisory